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Systematic Theology, Volume One: Introduction, Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this first volume, Dr. Geisler explains and defends the philosophical essentials—the preconditions—that make Christian belief possible and viable. His extensive examination of these preconditions includes the metaphysical, the supernatural, the revelational, the rational, the semantical, the epistemological, the oppositional, the linguistic, the hermeneutic, the historical and the...

wonder” (Brown, DNTH, 2:633). It carries with it the idea of that which is amazing or astonishing (ibid., 623–25). The word power (Gk: dunamis) is used on numerous occasions in the New Testament. It is occasionally used of human power (2 Cor. 1:8) or abilities (Matt. 25:15), and sometimes it is used of spiritual (satanic) powers (Luke 10:19; Rom. 8:38). Like its Old Testament parallel, the New Testament term for “power” is often translated “miracles.” Dunamis is used
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